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All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

18
To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?

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The idol! a workman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts for it silver chains.

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He who is impoverished chooses for an offering wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skilful craftsman to set up an image that will not move.

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Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

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It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

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who brings princes to nought, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.

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Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

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To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.

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Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.

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Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hid from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?

Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
(Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible)